Dying for Love

Culchet is everyone's idea of the idyllic Lake District village, with geese on its tree-shaded green and friendly, well-behaved residents going quietly about their business. Then, without warning, that peace is shattered. Two deaths occur within a short space of time, both too sudden and unusual to be deemed accidents. Then five-year-old Kim Butler disappears. Panic erupts, vigilante groups are formed, and quietly, insidiously, blackmailers come out of the woodwork. And all the time, unsuspected in this pretty, sleepy village, volcanic passions are waiting to erupt.